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Wave Completes 100,000 Seat Trusted Computing Deployment With BASF
July 2013 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Wave Systems Corp. announced that it has completed the installation of its software on BASF’s fleet of more than 100,000 PCs and laptops.
BASF, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is a chemical company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products, and agricultural products to oil and gas. BASF partners with its customers to create chemistry for virtually all industries.
To protect sensitive data, BASF elected self-encrypting drives (SEDs) as opposed to software encryption, as part of the standard configuration for all of BASF’s laptops. Built in accordance with the Opal specification published by the Trusted Computing Group, SEDs are among the most secure and most transparent encryption options available. Available in solid state or traditional rotating disk form, they are available from all the leading storage providers and PC OEMs.
The original order with BASF was initiated in 2011, involving tens of thousands of licenses for Wave’s flagship EMBASSY® Remote Administration Server. With the completion of this installation, BASF has extended its license with Wave until 2015. Wave enables IT to activate each SED in seconds (as opposed to up to several hours per device with software-based encryption), set security policies and provide detailed event logs to prove data was encrypted if a laptop goes missing.
